Word: fruitlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course in order to get a good understanding of the field of international law should not enroll. Every 10 days each member of the class writes a report on a class case. These reports are what consume most of the student's time since they involve a lot of fruitless searching through library books before the needed material is found...
...mind, refused to go with him. When her disappearance was first reported he was arrested and jailed on a charge of selling beer. He said he knew nothing of the girl's fate. Attempts to obtain information from two other taciturn Indians who were held, were equally fruitless. U. S. District Attorney John C. Gung'l went from Phoenix to White River. Friend of Indians, he announced: "It is unfair to condemn the Apache tribe because this brutal killing took place on its reservation...
...care to call Saki the English O'Henry they have not in so describing him said all that need be. For his stories are so entirely different from anything else that has ever been written, his style and his climatic turn is so distinctly original that comparison is fruitless. The stories are short to a marked degree, they are packed into so few words that their ironic twist makes them jump out at the reader like Jack released from...
...theory, it is absolutely impossible to convey any of the salient points of 150 pages of Plato to an instructor by means of a five minute scrawl. These meetings were primarily organized to solve any difficulties that the student might have, but they have been reduced to infinite and fruitless arguments on the number of ultimate realities that exist or other such important philosophical problems. These discussions are usually worried along by laymen whose only qualification lies in a facile verbosity. This is not entirely the section man's fault for Philosophy A offers a moderately lucrative training ground while...
Blood. News that two months of parleying had been fruitless brought fresh blood spilling in Bombay Presidency, Gandhi bailiwick. Excited mobs again publicly manufactured illegal salt. In a scrimmage between natives and police at Bilashi two citizens were shot dead, six police badly wounded by clubs, brickbats...